. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . r winters safely when left exposed outdoorsbut sometimes does so when well protected. The Varieties commonly grown are the Double Curled andFine Leaved, either of which makes a border that is pretty enoughfor a flower garden, and it is often used as an edging for smallkitchen gardens. CARROTS. (Daucus carota.)Nati^^e of Europe.—Biennial.—In the wild state this root isvalueless, being slender and woody, and the plant is a bad cultivation it exhibits the widest difference in shape, sizeand color.
. Vegetable gardening. A manual on the growing of vegetables for home use and marketing . r winters safely when left exposed outdoorsbut sometimes does so when well protected. The Varieties commonly grown are the Double Curled andFine Leaved, either of which makes a border that is pretty enoughfor a flower garden, and it is often used as an edging for smallkitchen gardens. CARROTS. (Daucus carota.)Nati^^e of Europe.—Biennial.—In the wild state this root isvalueless, being slender and woody, and the plant is a bad cultivation it exhibits the widest difference in shape, sizeand color. Some kinds have roots that are broader than longand extend not over two or three inches in the ground, whileothers attain a length of two feet, and still others may be foundhaving the various intermediate forms between these are also varieties having red, white and yellow flesh. Theleaves are very much divided and deeply cut. The flowers arewhite and crowded together in compound umbels on stalks two tofive feet high. The roots of the cultivated kind will stand con-. CARROT. 175 siderable frost, but not severe freezing. Two seeds are pro-duced by each flower; they are flat on one side and convex onthe other, and are partly covered \y minute bristles. When sold,the bristles have generally been removed. Carrots are used tosome extent as a table vegetable, but they are especially valuableas a food for horses and other stock. Cultivation.—The carrot ? of the easiest culture. It re-quires a fine mellow, rich, uplanc soil. On moist land the roots are apt to branch andare much liable to dis-tjase. The seedlingsare quite delicate whenthey first come up andevery precaution shouldbe taken to have theland clean, so that thesmall seedlings v%ill notbe overrun with weeds;the surface soil shouldbe kept loose and mel-low throughout the sea-son. It is a good planto sow a few radishseeds with the ce^rrotseed so that cultivationmay be commencedearly, as the latterstart slowl
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